9 pols who sought forgiveness

Politicians are human, but voters aren’t always divine. Rep. Todd Akin’s appeal for forgiveness in a television ad released Tuesday isn’t the first time an official has asked people to look past an indiscretion, slip-up or mistake.

"My life has been revolutionarily transformed and it's been transformed before this media that doesn't know me at all. I ask for your forgiveness. It will never happen again.” -- former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, pleading with a judge at an Aug. 8, 2008, bail hearing. Kilpatrick had violated the terms of his bail agreement by traveling to Windsor, Ontario, Canada on city business.
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